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Homeless Practice Incubator Project - Modular Housing

Homeless Practice Incubator Project - Modular Housing

Homeless Practice Incubator Project - Modular Housing

Monday, August 19, 2024

We are pleased to fund Homeless Link's new Homelessness Practice Incubator (HPI), a new way of working that provides the freedom to identify, explore and develop innovative practice across the UK and beyond. Over the last few months, the project has identified a number of projects focused on modular housing and have explored the opportunities, risks and future of the practice.

If you were to ask ten people what the main cause of homelessness was, you might get a broad spectrum of opinions from poverty drivers, a lack of prevention work and no funding security, but a universally accepted truth is that we are in a housing crisis. A lack of suitable and affordable homes is one of the key battles we face in our aspirations to be a country free from homelessness and the growth in modular housing is responding directly to this issue by providing housing that is quick to build, relatively cheap and easily replicable.

What is Modular Housing?

Modern Methods of Construction, or MMC has seven official categories. When we talk about ‘modular housing’, we are mainly talking about category one, volumetric, which refers to housing that has been partly or wholly constructed in a factory. However, even narrowing that definition down, still leaves a very broad range of buildings that fall under the category of modular housing.

Modular housing has taken on many different forms in providing both permanent and temporary housing solutions for a wide range of people.

Although modular housing absolutely has the potential to provide a permanent and space compliant home, the reality is that most of the modular housing being used for people experiencing homelessness is something quite different.

Typically, the modular housing within the sector is temporary, with an expectation of move-on within a specific timescale and is smaller than the national space standard at 24m2 or less.

Find out more about the HPI's research into modular housing here.

 

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